Garmadon

I completely agree, it looks great! An excellent story once again, Franco, keep it up! That little cutter looks neat, but it's probably a good thing that it stayed out of the fight if it wanted to survive its maiden voyage! Really like your way of measuring distance in studs as well! I do agree with Captain Genaro on the rigging (and I also think the Leech could use a long pole on that clip near the top of the mast for a yard), but that would probably get in the way a bit with your awesome smashed rigging shots! Anyhow, keep up the great work!

Wow, a very impressive build, Dzoni, great job with that sculptor, and color-scheme and architecture are excellent as well! The wood-work, stairs, and balcony are very well done, and the arches throughout the build fit perfectly! Overall an excellent art build for BoBS!

As the others have said, you've done a great job with the night scenes once again, and the yellow candle light works very well! Awesome job with that fight scene too, and as always, your stories are a pleasure to read and follow! Looking forward to more!

Very nice sand castles there, Captain B, it's great to see Eslandola consolidating its power in the New World! Ha, ha, really very nice build, and it's great to see your part of the collab - very well done! (And I see that the minion remembered to bring his mug along this time! )

As Capt Wolf and Kai have said, no, we were thinking only two positions max per member (Admius Leg. and one other seat)... since it seems like that's not currently in the Constitution, I think we should probably just try to add it as an amendment later on Good idea about hosting Councils by building them (though like Kai, I'm not sure we should make this absolutely a requirement). And I quite agree that it should rotate around any/all of Eslandola's colonies in the New World And @Elostirion, yes, we'll need a document detailing how the Council operates, but since that isn't such an important prerequisite (and what is absolutely essential is already in the constitution), I think we could probably just have the Council decide upon the rest of that itself

Eslandolan Royalists?? I didn't know there were any (except for the King) Neat build and very Kwatchi style story here, and glad to see that there are some true pirates out there! - the more villainous pirates out in the Brick Seas the better! (Did I just say that out loud? ) As to the build, I think the wooden part looks just a tad to much like it is actually melting and running down or something, and I think a color or two less might help, but the stone bottom story is very nice Glad to see another entry to the challenge too!

Truly excellent build and story, Captain Mengish, definitely looking forward to your adventures as a pirate captain in the Brick Seas! The inn (especially the roof and railing) and landscaping, although a little more on the textured side than I usually like, look good here, and your photography is superb as well! Keep it up!

You definitely did a great job capturing the Venetian/Eslandolan type of style here, Kai, great choice of colors, and the details like the hanging cloths, orange tree, and shaded section on the roof are excellent as well! I really like that scene in the inside court too!

I like the calm and business-like way Micah takes the whole thing, he almost sounds like an Eslandolan to me (and that's totally a complement, you know! )! Very nice interior as well, the fire-place and piano are great - although as a pianist I have to say I'm not sure how much could be played on such a tiny little thing! - and the bookshelves are a neat addition too! Although in general I'd think that having the furniture on two adjacent walls (or absence of walls, in this case!) would be the obvious thing to do, your innovative layout looks good as well. Great work, keep it up!

Thanks Titus! Tiles are really incredibly useful! Thank you! I think they'd probably rather that not happen themselves! Thanks for stopping by!

Wow! Really neat little ship, the curved roof is ingenious, and the clips on the end fit in superbly! You sure managed to pack a lot in their as well, and the hulls curves are very well done! Excellent mangrove tree and swamp too, and the light on the boat is really neat - although I admit I'm a tad baffled as to why there is one lit at both the front and back (maybe to deceive the enemy as to which way it might be going? ) Great job overall, and I'm looking forward to seeing what kind of action it will bring to that upcoming fight!

Thanks a lot, blackdeathgr, really glad you like it! I enjoyed building something a little smaller than my first ship (probably mostly because I wasn't incessantly running out of pieces this time, haha!), but the interior was definitely a bit more complicated and a little less refined given the space constraints. But I completely plan to stay within the Class 1 to 5 range for a while after this, so you can expect more mid range ships from me! I'd definitely say it is not fragile - even with the masts it was quite swooshable (if I may be permitted the sci-fi term over here! ) and the only thing that restrained it from total solidness was that the railing to which the backstays were attached didn't hold them back incredibly tightly (it was only attached by a single stud). But the hull itself was probably about as sturdy as they get! Thanks a lot, kurigan, I'm quite glad that you like it! Yes, I admittedly did add the last line up front there simply to completely steady the mast and bowsprit and to fill up the space there that was just begging for some rigging! - so I have no idea if that would help on a real ship The rest were all drawn from a few pictures of sloops, however - but, just out of curiosity, are the staysail/jib lines removed when those sails aren't set? I did have them all here but just thought that from the artistic perspective the ship was better without the jibs for the moment Thanks again! Ah, yes, that's yet another plus when it comes to interiors! Thanks Ayrlego, I found the math involved in the hull technique (which is entirely based on 1/2 plate offsets) quite enjoyable! Thanks, Bregir, I always appreciate your thorough critiques (even if you are constantly underestimating my hull size )! While the slope-hull is the same, the rest of the hull is actually very much different than my previous one, as I wished to step out more gradually and incorporate a bit of a subtle curve which the Henri didn't have. The only problem with that was that it made the interior quite complicated with all the minuscule offsets to deal with! And yes, I'm rather afraid of trying out a full interior with anything smaller than this barring a full hull (which I don't think I'll do anytime too soon! ) Well, well, I did try to get them attached but there was really no other way to finish off the railing! About the size, well, my advice would be to always use the interior overview shot to estimate the size of my ships, as that is the only thing that will give you a decent idea as to size! Like Kai said, my remarkably large sails tend to throw off the reckoning, and I'm sure all the SNOT-work didn't help! As you can see from this picture: The middle section (the tiles mid-ship on the hull) are ten studs in length, and a quick calculation from that gave me 45+ (there's nearly if not quite twice that length ahead, and about 1.5 as many studs behind). But never fear, I was definitely not going to licence it as a Class 4, let Kai say what she pleases! No problem! Thanks a lot for that link, I'll certainly post it over there, but I took a couple other shots in context today, and may just make a topic here as well As to the rest, thanks! Well, I think a 3F it is if we don't have a new system before the next MRCA! But I was really just asking about Class 2 or 3, you know, just to know if I'd be able to get away with my free licence for it! Thanks for the advice again!

That's some Gunman NPU there alright! Excellent and very solid looking gatehouse, Gunman, and those pillars in front are really neat! I agree with Kai that the boat hulls are nice but could use a little more finish, so looking forward to what you do with that! The slopes on the corners and the arrow slits are great, and the portcullis finishes the build off very well! And great to see you back building in Mitgardia!

Maybe un-Corlander, but highly realistic! Very nice build, Bregir, I really like the 2x2 tile walls and the log bricks, and the light grey and dark brown complement the tan very well! For some reason I'm really attracted to your cobblestones and regularly repeating red flowers - but I'm kind of wondering if the last child leaning backwards over the railing was actually done on purpose or not A few other critiques I have would be on the trees (I really think they would highly benefit if you would group the colors a bit more instead of having three or four completely unrelated leaf colors on a single tree ) and on the window in the garden house/fence wall, which I think would be greatly improved by being pulled out from the wall a stud (with an upward slope underneath, and cheese or a down-slope above) or indented by half a stud to make it more visually interest, or to otherwise define the edges of the house a little, since the random window in the fence it is just a bit glaring as it is But overall a very nice job, keep it up (and maybe the ETWC should invest in a blackboard monopoly or something, since the demand seems to be pretty high )!

Very nice build, Ayrlego, the exterior is neat, but the inside is what really stands out! I really like that dinning room and the dresser with the hats on it, and the bed and stairs are a couple of things I'll have to remember too! Keep it up!

I think King Fernando should capitalize the first letter of his name Seriously though, good job with the write-up! There are a few things I'd like changed, though: Chief Citizen - 'hem, not really a fan of that. Both Prime Minister and Stadtholder are better than that in my opinion, but perhaps a different thing altogether would be better... Well, if we're going to require a whole month for campaigning, three a year may just be a bit much! I'd rephrase and change that to something like, "The floor for campaigning shall open two (or maybe three) weeks before the election begins," meaning that any time during those two weeks the campaigners could post their figs and start the propaganda - which would obviously usually continue until the election is over (that's probably what you meant anyways). But really, I don't think more than three weeks would be good, since, supposing we have about a week of voting, that's already almost a month. I still think we should require only 51% (or 66%, in the other case) of the voting seats - otherwise, whatever is the point of abstaining, since it is always exactly equivalent with a 'no'? Other than that it looks great though, thanks for saving me the work of writing it up!

Thanks Kai! Well, it started out with the temporary Captain, and since he was so young I kind of had to make all the others young too Thanks Sleg! The rigging on this one was thankfully not too incredibly complex, and I think it only took me about a day or two (compared to about a month for the rigging, sails, and masts on my other ship )... but previous experience probably had a little bit to do with that too! And yes, that's probably why he's so nervous, I did put it on a small sandpit, but given the space constraints that was about the safest I could do (now let's just hope my first MRCA result isn't, "burnt down to the keel by a careless cook" )! Thanks a lot, Capt Wolf! By the time I was done with my previous ship, I found that the full interior was almost completely inaccessible without some serious destruction, so I wanted to make sure that this one would work better! Since the is attached to the deck rather than to the hull itself, most of the rigging is thankfully just attached on deck, so all I have to do to take it off is to snap off the ratline holder (or whatever the technical name of that thing is!) on the hull attached by just a couple of studs, and remove a couple of pieces from the railing, and, voila! Yes, the sail-plan is definitely a Class 2 type rig, but you see I went for a very much more to-scale size for the mast and sails than usual (the boom is 24+ studs long ), so the hull ended up quite large for a Class 2 (45+ studs, I believe) - I'll most likely go for a Class 3F (but probably as soon as I decide the new system will be put in place rendering this all futile ). Thanks! Thanks, Titus! Brick-built hulls for the win!

Thanks, Sir Stig! As I said before, that's really the feeling I was trying to capture in the build, so I'm very glad it came across! Good old King Fernando is just about killing himself that he didn't think of that before! He's definitely going to go that route if he ever has any more trouble with his subjects! Ha, ha, thanks Dr_Spock! Thanks a lot, Captain B! I'm more than happy to be inspiring you! And it's certainly an exciting time for Eslandola! That he did not! But, you know, he was just waiting for a wee little bit of encouragement! Thanks a lot, Faladrin! Thanks, blackdeathgr, and yes, the details of a build are really what make it alive! Ha, ha, well, it was supposed to be the middle of the night, so there wasn't exactly supposed to be light coming through there just now... but I think that the white really bounced the daylight to give that impression! Thanks anyways!

The ETWC has a new ship sailing out into the Brick Seas! The Fog-Breaker Also, speaking of the ETWC, good old E. T. Wilkinson de Chauncourtois has been up to some interesting things recently... Don't forget about the King's Demise mini-challenge!

Neat crew but particularly great descriptions, SodorBricks! I especially like how Captain Crazy got his name! Got those pictures working for you, by the way, but you may want to get rid of the repeated one (I wasn't quite sure which went with which, so I left it for you!)

Having seen things satisfactorily settled for the present in Terreli, much to his delight and the amusement of all others, Captain Whiffo had sent Myles off with the Second Mate to the shipwrights of the Capital to commission the preparation of a new ETWC sloop at the shortest notice possible... and, finding that "the shortest notice possible" exceeded his own ideas of propriety (which were quite unique, by the way), he sailed off instantly to return to the New World, leaving a letter behind him at the hotel to let his mates know what was up. But, as the reader has probably guessed, it wasn't very elucidating - yet notwithstanding, our ingenious First Mate got as much out of it as practicable, and proceeded to take temporary command of the Fog-Breaker, to go and attempt to find his eccentric Captain somewhere to the east of Terraversa... Fair skies and fair winds soon saw them off in the direction of Pontelli... Our randomly promoted (at least for now) First Mate: And, the Second Mate by the wheel: The newest addition to the ETWC Eslandolan fleet, the Fog-Breaker is a fast trading sloop, built strong enough to weather the toughest gale, and yet sleek enough to cut through the water far faster than most of its possible enemies. Notwithstanding, it is armed with an 18 pounder in the bow, and the crew have weapons enough to be armed to the teeth. Like my other ship, as well, it has a full interior, accessible by the removable deck - which, unlike last time, note, is actually easily removable! Instead of studs-up I went for an entirely SNOTted deck that sits inside the hull connected by the stud on the bottom half of the mast, and the rigging was designed with the removable deck in view (also unlike last time! ) The ship's-cook (those guys always seem to have a difficult life, for some reason ) And the cabin. Given the raised quarterdeck, the two parts came off separately - and thankfully the quarterdeck didn't have any rigging in the way! The bow and cannon: And a few random rigging shots which I thought were too cool to do away with! The fighting-top: And a top-down view: And, wrapping up with a couple of overviews: And the crew - left to right, the ship's cook, a nondescript sailor, the Second Mate, the First Mate (previously Second Mate of the Henri), and Myles Bowditch, temporary Captain: And lastly the classic shot (just leaving Terreli - at least, that's my excuse for my photo-setup being surrounded by trees, ) Well, well, about this ship - This was supposed to be an experiment to find out how quickly I could build a ship, but as I got distracted about the middle of the building process and took a break to build my large-ish Weyworth Keep which swallowed up about two months, I'm afraid it ended up taking even longer than my last! Nevertheless, it's been sitting around (the pictures, that is - the rest didn't last very long! ) for about a month or so waiting for me to get around to editing them. But that said, here it is, so enjoy! On another note, I'm rather wondering what I ought to licence this as, so suggestions are quite welcome! I was planning on building a 2F for my free licence, but it ended up getting a bit out of hand, and Kai says she'd probably make it a 4 (Note that the full-scale sails do seem to dwarf it, so you'll have to scale it by the minifigs on deck ). I'm thinking a 3F would probably be the best fit... And, as I mentioned for the next time I used it, I've got a tutorial for the cannon design ready (though I don't think it's all that complicated or too original ), but I'm not quite sure if I should dedicate an entire new topic to it or if that (probably) is a bit much... Regardless, anyhow, thanks for viewing, C&C are always more than welcome!

Very nice build, Titus, the woodwork and Tudor are probably my favorite of yours yet, and the variety of house styles really helps the build a lot! Excellent job making it fit in with the rest of Thorshaven as well, which - as SK said - it's great to see again! Keep it up!

Excellent build, LJ, as I said on Flickr, probably my favorite detail is the bridge in the back with the white turn-table bottoms, but the two-colored rock-work is superb as well, and the architecture is great! - especially on the largest building! The waterfalls, palm trees, and sand and dark green accents complement the rest of the build wonderfully, but I do think that the lavender leaves look a tad out of place... And as usual, of course, it's great to see interiors to your buildings!

Very neat build, Captain B, and quite a dilemma there! Loving all those ETWC soldiers marching behind the Eslandolan coach!

Very nice little build, Captain B - and it sure looks like Brickinson is enjoying it! Those fires somehow add a great party flair to the whole thing here,